One Guy vs. the Petrokleptocracy
This week on FP.com, I try to explain to a gringo audience that the real problem with cases like the Aban Pearl’s isn’t just the unabashed looting of...
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The Aban Pearl Stew
Remember the sinking of the Aban Pearl exploration rig off the coast of Sucre State back in April 2010? Turns out there was a massive corruption guiso behind...
Perhaps the world's richest deposit of arbitration processes
The sprawling farce that is the Las Cristinas gold mine sunk to a new low yesterday, as Rusoro, the Russian firm that had been brought in to take over...
Fun Mental Exercise of the Day
How would Venezuela be different if the constitution had allowed Jaime Lusinchi to be re-elected president in 1988? If instead of leaving a new administration without a penny...
An oldie but a goodie
Looking through for links on chavismo’s batshit-nuts exchange control system, I found this rant, squirreled away in the 2009 memory-dustbin of my archive. It’s nice to find something...
Permuta Redux
From the moment the government cracked down on the old dollar “swap market” (a.k.a., the permuta) back in May 2010, it was perfectly clear that something very much...
A Paraguayan Look at the Paraguayan Crisis
Paraguayan congressman Sebastian Acha is, if nothing else, a very good writer: No se ha coartado la libertad de prensa, las FFAA no salieron de los cuarteles, la...
The Empire that didn't bark
You’d think the Chavernment would be thrilled over the invisibility of the gringos in the Paraguayan crisis, wouldn’t you? Alas no…
Fox Suspends Henhouse from Mercosur Pending Democracy Restoration
Well, we know one place Nicolás Maduro will not be seeking asylum when chavismo loses power… Update: Is Maduro planning to make a statement about this?! Jesus!
CeaseFire: What it's going to take to break Venezuela's violence epidemic
Notice the metaphor in that title? “Violence epidemic”? We hear that kind of figurative language all the time. But what if violence really is an epidemic, or behaves...
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